{"id":6812,"date":"2020-11-14T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T04:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2020-11-14T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T04:54:56","slug":"mata-wants-additional-allocation-to-be-disbursed-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6812","title":{"rendered":"MATA wants additional allocation to be disbursed soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 &#8212; The Malaysian Association of Tour Agency (MATA) expressed relief with the announcement of an additional allocation of RM200 million by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture&nbsp;(MOTAC) for the implementation of the stimulus package under the Tourism Rehabilitation Plan for 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its president,\u00a0Datuk Mohd\u00a0Khalid Harun hoped that the disbursement of the allocation could be made soon as the existing allocation announced through the National Economic Recovery Plan (PENJANA), prior to this, had not yet been spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"mata\" class=\"wp-image-6813\" width=\"467\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-160x100.jpg 160w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-350x219.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-800x500.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe (MATA)&nbsp;feel a little relieved after Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri told us that she managed to get the additional allocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the survival of the tourism industry, we hope MOTAC&nbsp;feels with us the suffering of players in the tourism industry at the moment,&#8221; he said in a statement, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Nancy announced that an additional allocation of RM200 million has been provided to MOTAC&nbsp;for the implementation of the stimulus package under the Tourism Rehabilitation Plan for 2021, apart from the allocation in Budget 2021 that was tabled in Parliament last Nov 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the\u00a0stimulus package included accommodation vouchers, tourist destination discounts, family travel package discounts, as well as the revitalization of arts and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also included are transportation discounts, shopping discounts and discount packages&nbsp;for frontliners as well as the \u2018Meet in Malaysia&nbsp;Campaign\u2019, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/general\/news.php?id=1901195\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 &#8212; The Malaysian Association of Tour Agency (MATA) expressed relief with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea.jpg",1110,694,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-300x188.jpg",300,188,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-768x480.jpg",640,400,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea-1024x640.jpg",640,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea.jpg",1110,694,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea.jpg",1110,694,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea.jpg",1110,694,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea.jpg",1024,640,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c019162428a02f3709c8e8adaef8ff1a5faf5c32c5dea.jpg",720,450,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}